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 117 STAT. 1538

PUBLIC LAW 108–136—NOV. 24, 2003

Sec. 836. Clerical amendments. Subtitle D—Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations Sec. 841. Additional authority to enter into personal services contracts. Sec. 842. Elimination of certain subcontract notification requirements. Sec. 843. Multiyear task and delivery order contracts. Sec. 844. Elimination of requirement to furnish written assurances of technical data conformity. Sec. 845. Access to information relevant to items deployed under rapid acquisition and deployment procedures. Sec. 846. Applicability of requirement for reports on maturity of technology at initiation of major defense acquisition programs. Sec. 847. Certain weapons-related prototype projects. Sec. 848. Limited acquisition authority for commander of United States Joint Forces Command. Subtitle E—Acquisition-Related Reports and Other Matters Sec. 851. Report on contract payments to small businesses. Sec. 852. Contracting with employers of persons with disabilities. Sec. 853. Demonstration project for contractors employing persons with disabilities.

Subtitle A—Acquisition Policy and Management SEC. 801. CONSOLIDATION OF CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.

(a) AMENDMENT TO TITLE 10.—(1) Chapter 141 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2381 the following new section: ‘‘§ 2382. Consolidation of contract requirements: policy and restrictions ‘‘(a) POLICY.—The Secretary of Defense shall require the Secretary of each military department, the head of each Defense Agency, and the head of each Department of Defense Field Activity to ensure that the decisions made by that official regarding consolidation of contract requirements of the department, agency, or field activity, as the case may be, are made with a view to providing small business concerns with appropriate opportunities to participate in Department of Defense procurements as prime contractors and appropriate opportunities to participate in such procurements as subcontractors. ‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON USE OF ACQUISITION STRATEGIES INVOLVING CONSOLIDATION.—(1) An official of a military department, Defense Agency, or Department of Defense Field Activity may not execute an acquisition strategy that includes a consolidation of contract requirements of the military department, agency, or activity with a total value in excess of $5,000,000, unless the senior procurement executive concerned first— ‘‘(A) conducts market research; ‘‘(B) identifies any alternative contracting approaches that would involve a lesser degree of consolidation of contract requirements; and ‘‘(C) determines that the consolidation is necessary and justified. ‘‘(2) A senior procurement executive may determine that an acquisition strategy involving a consolidation of contract requirements is necessary and justified for the purposes of paragraph (1) if the benefits of the acquisition strategy substantially exceed

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